It has been introduced that Mike Peters, frontman of the Welsh rock band The Alarm, has died from blood most cancers aged 66.
Peters was first recognized with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1995 and persistent lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) was recognized in 2005. Regardless of continued battles and durations of remission, the musician was pressured to cancel a US tour final 12 months after he found a big swollen gland on his neck. Recognized by medical doctors as Richter’s syndrome, a uncommon complication the place the CLL transforms right into a extra aggressive lymphoma, Peters had been present process remedy on the Christie NHS basis belief in Manchester.
Having co-founded the Love Hope Energy Basis alongside his spouse, Jules, to assist recruit bone marrow donors at reside music exhibits, the singer was awarded the MBE in 2019 for his companies to most cancers care.
Final December he wrote on Love Hope Energy Basis web site: “I am eternally grateful for the assist of everybody who has been to the live shows since this horrible ordeal started. Taking part in music has saved me mentally centered all through, and I need to thank everybody who has since signed as much as the Stem Cell Donor Registry by way of Love Hope Energy.”
“In 2014,” he continued, “whereas addressing delegates on the World Most cancers Congress in Melbourne Australia, I stated that ‘In 1995, I didn’t see most cancers coming however on the similar time, most cancers didn’t see Mike Peters coming both’. In 2025, I’ll have been dwelling with the illness for 30 years and in all that point I’ve needed to face the truth that my type of Leukaemia was incurable.”
The information of his passing was introduced on social media by way of a video titled, ‘Michael Peters: 1959 – 2025.’
Autobiographical Trilogy
Final 12 months, Peters revealed his autobiography LOVE 1959 -1991, the primary a part of an meant autobiographical trilogy titled LOVE HOPE STRENGTH, was out there to order. He wrote: “I’m honoured to have been given this chance to put in writing the account of my life. The publishers, A Method With Media and editor Andrew Richardson have allowed me the scope and area to inform my story, the best way I’ve all the time dreamt of.
“Most ‘life’ autobiography’s are condensed into roughly 90,000 phrases or so and as an archivist, diarist, documentary and completist that wasn’t for me. Andrew and A Method With Media have been courageous and dedicated sufficient, to set me, my archive and my pen free to inform the story the best way I’ve lived it and to not be edited down or discouraged from telling all of the tales and laying out all of the details of the life I’ve been blessed to stroll by means of.
“Quantity One alone concerned the writing of roughly 158,000 phrases. No stone has been left unturned…”
Message Of Hope
Simply 4 days in the past, on 25 April, The Alarm Fb web page relayed a ‘Private Message From Mike Peters’, asserting Quantity Two ‘HOPE‘. It stated:
“I’m writing personally to thanks for the love and understanding proven to me and my household throughout my trials at The Christie Hospital, Manchester, all through these difficult previous few months. Andrew Richardson (my writer at A Method With Media), has saved me totally abreast of all of the fantastic suggestions you might have despatched him relating to the e book content material, story telling and a focus to element that I poured into the writing of LOVE 1959 – 1991. Fortunately for me, I used to be in a position to keep alive lengthy sufficient by means of 2024 to finish Quantity 2 HOPE 1991 – 2005.”
Transformation
Earlier this 12 months it was additionally introduced that The Alarm can be releasing a brand new album, Transformation, on 6 June. It was revealed that the recording classes for Transformation started spontaneously on 7 October 2024 and was accomplished on 15 January 2025.
Reflective of Peters’ preventing spirit, the announcement was accompanied by the video for brand new music, Outlier, which was filmed and recorded in early March by Peters’ two “official and authorised guests” – Jules Peters and Andy Labrow, who helped create the movie inside his isolation room at The Christie NHS Basis Hospital.
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Willpower By Adversity
Born in Prestatyn, Peters shaped The Alarm in 1981 and scored a Prime 20 hit with Sixty Eight Weapons, two years later. Having stepped into the void created by the demise of bands like The Conflict, Peters and The Alarm have been celebrated for his or her anthemic, politically conscious, rabble-rousing rock.
Peters instructed Traditional Pop in 2018: “We discretely did issues like supporting the miners’ strike funds. Nevertheless, I didn’t need our music to change into like The Redskins or Billy Bragg, the place you’re actually only a mouthpiece. Our politics have been in regards to the politics of the person waking as much as who they have been after which making their very own selections. My position as an artist was to stimulate dialog.”
Their debut album Declaration was launched in 1984. Alongside Sixty Eight Weapons, the LP additionally featured Blaze of Glory. Nevertheless it was the follow-up Energy (1985) which Peters claimed was: “The Alarm’s finest album, music for music.”
All through his profession, which additionally noticed him entrance Large Nation between 2011 and 2013, Peters was in a position to proactively use his place to advertise charitable causes – not least the aforementioned Love Hope Energy Basis. His dedication by means of adversity impressed many and his passing has been greeted with nice disappointment and quite a few tributes from followers on-line.
Peters is survived by his spouse, Jules, and two sons, Dylan, 20, and Evan, 18.
For extra on Transformation and LOVE HOPE STRENGTH trilogy, click on right here
Go to the Love Hope Energy Basis right here to seek out out extra or donate.
For extra on Mike Peters learn our Declaration of Energy: The Alarm interview
